This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged … individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis … frailties in mental and physical health, the results suggest that cannabis use reduces the mental wellbeing of men and women and …

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved … factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use …. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a …

younger people are falling. Nor is there any clear evidence that as more people live to be older health and social service … also be redesigned to maximize the independence of the elderly while minimizing costs. Since the ageing of society is … unavoidable we should seek ways to treat the elderly as a resource rather than viewing them as a burden. …

well-being has shifted against children and in favor of the elderly population. This shift has occurred because welfare … benefits to the retired population and on health and personal social service expenditure by age-group show that the British …

This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment … is influenced primarily by economic factors, although health becomes important in 1981. By showing that retirement and …

for the elderly and the labor supply of older workers in developed countries is likely to be affected by demographic …

abnormally low levels of life satisfaction. Using data from the World Values Survey and other sources, we study various … explanations of this phenomenon. First, we document that the disparity in life satisfaction between residents of transition and non …-transition countries is much larger among the elderly. Second, we find that deterioration in public goods provision, an increase in …

-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …